Segregation
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see apartheid; integration.
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Apartheid - (pärt´ht) [Afrik.
Desegregation in 1930in schools?
How many schools have been desegregated?
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Segregation: The act of separating, such as segregating the races in a school. Segregation of races in public places of all kinds is illegal in the United States and violates federal laws.
De jure segregation
Definition
: segregation intended or mandated by law or otherwise intentionally arising from state action
De jure segregation is illegal.
2 : separate confinement of prisoners within a penal institution ...
Segregation was the "law" for many years ... until wiser men made new law to replace the old. Such laws derive from human legislation and can be changed.
"Blockbusting depended upon a high degree of residential segregation and provided the means for transferring white property into black hands at a time when mainstream real-estate and financial institutions refused to sell to blacks or facilitate ...
Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation in public education by finding that separate public schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.
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